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El Croquis 212: Palinda Kannangara
Isbn 9788412333152
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 22001
€ 73.00
The award-winning Sri Lankan architectural firm led by Palinda Kannangara is known for an experiential architecture that hinges on simplicity and connection with the natural environment. Its work has been recognised for a personalised approach, contextual sensitivity, experimental material use, and a minimalism reflective of the Sri Lankan ethos. Started in 2005, Kannangara’s practice often works on small-scale projects which connect with the region, climate, and landscape using locally available materials and technology. This issue features twelve works, including several houses, a wellness retreat, holiday bungalows, an artist’s retreat, and staff quarters for a wind power plant.
296 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AMAG 25: Aires Mateus
Isbn 9789895493845
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21658
€ 85.90
For its expanded tenth anniversary edition, the magazine presents a special feature on Portuguese architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus. Presenting over 30 works categorically divided in three sections – private, public, unbuilt – and filled with innumerable drawings, plans, sections, and photographs, it offers an extraordinarily comprehensive and detailed look at highlights from their combined body of work. Texts by Ricardo Carvalho, Marta Sequeira, and Camilo Rebelo respectively introduce each of the three sections, adding key critical notes and insight regarding the architecture and why these designers have become so highly regarded in the community.
526 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/French/English
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Urban Design in the 20th Century - A History
Isbn 9783856764180
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21671
€ 60.00
Our time is an urban age. More people live in cities than ever before, cities are growing larger and denser than ever, and urbanity is reaching new levels of complexity. Since around the turn of the 20th century, as urban populations steadily increased, architects and planners have faced the challenges of designing new housing and public space. Yet they also needed to respond to emerging societal challenges, such as reconstruction after two world wars, decolonisation, economic and political crises, growing climatic concerns, and cultural shifts. Tom Avermaete and Janina Gosseye, associate professors of architecture at TU Delft, present a definitive history of urban design.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa SANAA 1987-2005 Vol.1 / 2005-2015 Vol.2 / 2014-2021 Vol. 3 (Japanese Only)
Isbn 9784887063921
Publisher Toto
Idea code 21734
€ 246.00
This three-volume anthology on architects Kazuyou Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa and the world-renowned practice they co-founded in 1995, SANAA, introduces their activities in chronological order from 1987 to 2021. The publication encompasses a wide scope, including architecture and urbanism, interiors and furniture, and miscellaneous objects and books, and was also designed by Sejima and Nishizawa. As such, they considered this collection of works as a single architecture and created it in a way similar to their architectural design process. Immerse yourself in more than three decades of brilliant imagination from two of the finest architectural thinkers today.
672 p, ills colour, 32 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese
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AV Monographs 238: Estudioherreros - Technology and Type
Isbn 9788409341474
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21654
€ 34.10
Coinciding with the opening of the New Munch Museum in Oslo, AV Monographs 238 features the complete oeuvre of the Madrid-based estudioHerreros. The city, sustainability, and typological revision are some the key interests of Juan Herreros, who seeks, through his studio, to channel his academic, research, and professional work from a global perspective across disciplines. Over these past fifteen years the office has completed works of different program and scale, but always tackled through experimentation and critical distance. Their project list includes international commissions, housing in Spain, and spaces for art.
126 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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A Morphological Approach To Cities And Regions
Isbn 9783038630456
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 21623
€ 48.40
First published 34 years ago, ‘A Morphological Approach to Cities and Their Regions’ now appears in a new English edition, indicative of the continuing interest in the teaching and design work of Italian architect Saverio Muratori (1910–1973). Muratori was at the forefront of post-war architectural debate in Italy, a period marked by the intellectual polarity between rationalism and functionalism on one side and traditionalism and conservatism on the other. He achieved lasting influence through his theories of urban development, in which the city is seen as an evolving organism that can neither be understood nor further developed unless first grasped in its historical dimensions.
282 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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What we Talk about when we Talk about Architecture
Isbn 9780648685890
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 21668
€ 25.70
A series of conversations with thinkers and practitioners of contemporary architecture today, featuring visiting lecturers Beatriz Colomina, Peter Wilson, and John Lin and Joshua Bolchover of Rural Urban Framework. The talks, which took place in 2018 and 2019 at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, dive deeper into the ideas and processes behind their buildings – the players, places, forces, cultural imperatives, and ideologies that the glamour of the finished output often obscures. In addition, thought-provoking essays by Diane Yvonne Ghirardo, Justin Clemens, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, and others offer fresh insights on the themes uncovered.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Archives Universum 01: Flores & Prats
Isbn 9788412162530
Publisher C2C Editorial
Idea code 21736
€ 15.30
‘Archives Universum’ emerged after years of visiting different architects’ studios and noticing how life intermingles with work. The publication seeks to add to the description of work-life spaces through an explanation of projects in progress at a given time in the featured studio. A two-fold narrative exists in each instalment: photographic and written. Texts by the architects provide explanation, while the images follow a narrative discourse coherent to each edition of the journal. This first edition features Flores & Prats, an architectural practice in Barcelona founded by Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores in 1998. The two combine design and constructive practice with academic activity.
146 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Volume 60 - The World in Reviews
Isbn 9789077966709
Publisher Archis
Idea code 21737
€ 18.95
From architects becoming bakers to the face of Jesus in China and everything in between, ‘Volume’ 60 spans the globe with an impressive roster of diverse topics and interests. Through 49 contributions from more than 20 countries scattered across multiple continents, a mix of celebrated authors and students share inspiring reflections and concerns on buildings, exhibitions, movies, and more. This special issue is a collaboration between ‘Volume’, the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, TU Delft’s The Berlage, and the University of Nairobi architecture department. Find out how space and architecture trigger contradiction and contest, and how feelings are never really straightforward.
68 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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New Material Award 2009-2018
Isbn 9789083015286
Publisher Het Nieuwe Instituut
Idea code 21753
€ 18.95
Over the past ten years, material development and innovation has evolved by leaps and bounds. From a relatively minor subject within design research, it has become an increasingly fundamental aspect of technological innovation, sustainability, and more. Launched in 2009, the New Material Award aimed to bring more attention to an aspect of design that was increasingly developing, yet remained outside the professional field of vision. From 2014, the public conversation received more attention, and the development of an international material network became the focus. Now, there is a greater appreciation of perspectives on the development and application of sustainable materials.
488 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Gonçalo Byrne
Isbn 9789895440177
Publisher A+A Books
Idea code 21724
€ 38.70
Continuing a series of architectural guides dedicated to projects in Portugal that already includes Aires Mateus, Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, and Carrilho da Graça, this next instalment embarks on a journey throughout the country to document works by Gonçalo Byrne. He started his career after graduating from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts in 1968, a time marked by protests and a shift towards modernisation, rationalisation, and effective accountability in the field of Portuguese architecture. Byrne is known for producing designs in diverse scales and functions; in this guide, numerous examples are presented in drawings, photographs, and detailed texts.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 18 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Gottfried Semper. London Writings 1850-1855
Isbn 9783856764036
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21730
€ 80.70
Gottfried Semper’s years in exile in London (1850–1855) were a time of highly inspirational experiences. The London of the first World Expo offered the German architect an immense trove of objects for study and an intellectual surrounding that provided seminal impulses for his innovative cultural-history-based theory of architecture. That revolutionary period found not only politics and society in radical upheaval, but also the world of art and science. Internationalization, and indeed globalization, of knowledge was thereby a particularly distinctive phenomenon, the most important place of which was the capital of the British Empire.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Architectural History and Globalized Knowledge: Gottfried Semper in London
Isbn 9783856764098
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21732
€ 35.75
Gottfried Semper’s years in exile in London (1850–1855) were a time of highly inspirational experiences. The London of the first World Expo offered the German architect an immense trove of objects for study and an intellectual surrounding that provided seminal impulses for his innovative cultural-history-based theory of architecture. That revolutionary period found not only politics and society in radical upheaval, but also the world of art and science. Internationalization, and indeed globalization, of knowledge was thereby a particularly distinctive phenomenon, the most important place of which was the capital of the British Empire.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Kazuo Shinohara View from this Side (New Edition)
Isbn 9783906213385
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 21684
€ 22.50
Besides designing buildings, the celebrated Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006) also travelled extensively, always with a camera in hand. Presented here is a selection of his rarely seen colour slides that were primarily intended for personal use. The majority are quick snapshots taken while casually moving through cities – street scenes, impressions of the cityscape, and monumental buildings – in order to record details, unusual perspectives, and sometimes merely oddities. Selected from five significant overseas journeys Shinohara made between 1972 and 1985, the pictures constitute the diary of a seasoned architect. With an essay by Simona Ferrari.
98 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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The Floating Community
Isbn 9788792700360
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 21685
€ 40.00
Variously known as the Harbour of Peace and the Pirate Harbour, the floating community is a spontaneously evolved and self-organised haven for people living on the fringes of society, yet it is centrally situated Copenhagen next to Christiania and an upscale residential area. For more than a decade, people have been living here in self-refurbished boats and self-constructed houses on rafts, clustered around existing jetties, mooring poles, and sunken boats. This community of outsider artists, poets, lost souls, and dreamers is one of diversity, prone to both antagonistic disruption and mutual fertilisation. Danish architect and urbanist Henrik Valeur explores its many facets in this book.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Database, Network, Interface The Architecture Of Information - Mariabruna Fabrizi Fosco Lucarelli -
Isbn 9782493283009
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 21665
€ 32.25
In an age characterised by the increasing dematerialisation of cultural production and transmission, 'Database, Network, Interface' explores architecture's historical role in representing and organising information and knowledge. The publication, conceived in the occasion of the exhibition at Archizoom (EPFL), dives into the relationship between architectural and digital culture beyond the pure rhetoric of the digital turn and the digital as architectural style.
176 p, ills bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Stream #05 - New Intelligences
Isbn 9782957578009
Publisher Pca-stream
Idea code 21664
€ 31.20
Architect Philippe Chiambaretta brings together thinkers, researchers and contemporary artists in the 5th edition of the exploration book-magazine Stream, which investigates the different forms of intelligence that must be considered, implemented and passed down to move beyond the Urbanocene. With contributions by a.o. Pascal Picq, Jacques Lévy, Marine Calmet, Virginie Maris, Emanuele Coccia, Cécile Maisonneuve, Bruno Maisonnier, Jérôme Denis & David Pontille, Claire Brossaud, François Taddei, Michel Lussault, Sandra Laugier, Nicolas Bourriaud, Agnieszka Kurant, Guillaume Logé, Tomás Saraceno & Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Tara Londi, Refik Anadol, Thijs Biersteker.
816 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, French/English
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AV Proyectos 107: Kengo Kuma
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21652
€ 11.75
AV Proyectos 107 devotes its dossier to a selection of Kengo Kuma’s latest projects, ranging from subtle interventions on heritage to large cultural complexes, always paying special attention to the materials and applying local building methods. The chapter after this presents the winning project by José María Sánchez in the competition for the refurbishment of the historic Castello Visconteo in the Swiss town of Locarno, as well as three shortlisted proposals. The issue also features six examples of pavilions that prove the potential for research and innovation of this building type. The detail section covers the station designed by Benedetta Tagliabue for the new metropolitan line of Naples.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Arquitectura Viva 238: Studio Zhu Pei - Four Museums
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21653
€ 18.20
Born in 1962, the Chinese architect Zhu Pei attended Tsinghua University and UC Berkeley to then set up practice in Beijing in 2005 and produce an extraordinary corpus of cultural works that have made him a leading figure of his generation in China. Arquitectura Viva features four recent ones: the Imperial Kilm Museum in Jingdezhen, the Culture Center in Shou County, the Art Center in Zibo, and the CUBE Art Museum in Beijing.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Sebastiao Moreira Casa Em Sabrosa
Isbn 9789895493883
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21647
€ 43.00
Nestled in a landscape where the Marão mountains meet the river Douro, the house known as Casa Sabrosa adapts sensitively to the easily sloping natural topography, merging with it. Closed on one side, partially sunken into the ground, it opens up completely on the other to the light and surroundings. The power of the design is rooted in its sequence of interior spaces unified by a large central corridor, a spatial link that connects the whole complex. A text by Francisco Aires Mateus introduces this notable work by fellow Portuguese architect Sebastião Moreira.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 24 cm, hb, Portuguese/English
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Planning And Building Methods Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop Au Muhely
Isbn 9788011000028
Publisher Vi Per Gallery
Idea code 21637
€ 27.55
Based in Budapest, the Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop is an office that, in addition to planning small projects, always looks for ways to experiment. One of their biggest motivations is attempting to understand contemporary vernacular architecture as they continuously pursue situations where comfort meets real human needs. Their first monograph includes a conversation with founders Dénes Emil Ghyczy and Lukács Szederkényi, who began thinking and working together during their university days. The studio’s name refers to the fact that the spaces built by people are brought into being at the cost of significant physical labour, involving both sacrifice and conflict.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Hungarian/English
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Co-Machines - Mobile Distruptive Architecture
Isbn 9789493148222
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21717
€ 22.00
Inspired by the recent tendency among architects and designers to opt out of traditional office work in favour of creating self-initiated interventions in public space,‘Co-machines’ maps out a new architectural movement motivated by practices of place-making, occupying and squatting, and alternative economies. Ecological or technological in scope, all the interventions are mobile and nearly all of them are performed without permission from city planners. Presenting a selection of international projects by emerging designers, ‘Co-machines: Mobile Disruptive Architecture’ shows the life of the alternative, grassroots and DIY with an independent spirit.
232 p, ills ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Log 52 Summer 2021
Isbn 9781736500705
Publisher Anyone Corporation
Idea code 21744
€ 18.95
This issue of ‘Log’ addresses how Black artists and designers feel socially and culturally limited due to the way the public perceives their work. Two pieces reflect on this: a conversation on Black social practice with Thelma Golden (director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City), architect David Adjaye, and artist Rick Lowe; and a review of ‘Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America’ at MoMA (2021). Other contributions include Kurt W. Forster’s travels with Lars Spuybroek, Patrick Templeton’s appraisal of follies, sizing up the superprime with Matthew Soules, Deborah Gans’s ideas of adaptation, Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest’, and more.
176 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Cellular Transformations Between Architecture And Biology
Isbn 9788968011030
Publisher Damdi
Idea code 22007
€ 26.65
‘Cellular Transformations’ presents a course developed for students who are interested in emerging technologies and cross-disciplinary approaches in design strategies. Relying on how advances in engineering and biology are influencing design production and implementation, professors Ram Dixit and Sung Ho Kim at Washington University in St. Louis explore the premise that structure (or form) and function are inexorably linked in both the natural and artificial worlds. By leading a course of experimentation and research that is embedded in technical and design issues which are transferable to real-world applications, they aim to change our expectations of the built environment.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, English
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